{"id":16596,"date":"2020-12-03T04:03:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T04:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=16596"},"modified":"2020-12-03T04:03:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T04:03:39","slug":"gor-mahia-hopeful-despite-empty-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-hopeful-despite-empty-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia hopeful despite empty stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 842px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/wendo-apr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"842\" height=\"474\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First Leg action: Ernest Wendo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over the years Gor Mahia has been heavily reliant on their green army which motivates the players to push themselves harder and inspires the players. For the first time ever, Gor Mahia will be playing an important match with no fans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will have no fans attending the match between Gor Mahia and APR, and it is all because we are adhering to the strict regulations put in place by the Ministry of Health to combat the spread of Covid-19,\u201d said FKF official Barry Otieno to goal.com<\/p>\n<p>But coach Sammy Omollo &#8220;Pamzo&#8221; is positive that despite the deficit, Gor Mahia will overcome APR. Pamzo is confident that the away goal Gor Mahia scored will prove crucial as Gor Mahia now need a 1-0 win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the loss, the boys played well in that game, and they stuck to our game plan,&#8221; Omollo told Goal on Monday. \u201cA 2-1 [loss] is not a bad result for us; the important thing is that we scored the important away goal. \u201cThe one goal we scored will be very crucial for us in the return leg because now we just need one goal, or even two if possible, to advance.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On his part, APR coach Adil Errade Mohamed has cautioned his players not to underrate\u00a0Gor Mahia as they did in the first leg contest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am told that local media reported extensively about the financial difficulties that our opponents are going through and how it had affected their morale because some players had threatened not to play,\u201d Mohamed is quoted by This might have made our players become a little bit complacent but I don\u2019t want to see that attitude in the return leg, we must be very cautious against them and make sure we don\u2019t crack.\u201d he said to the New Times.<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia&#8217;s performance in this competition has been sub par. Last year, the team started well, beating Aigle Noir of Burundi 5-1 on aggregate before going down to USM Alger of Algeria<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-hopeful-despite-empty-stadium\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years Gor Mahia has been heavily reliant on their green army which motivates the players to push themselves<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16597,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16596\/revisions\/16597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}